Slackware

[Ham Blowfist]

I was wondering how Slackware users update their systems.

Is slapt-get the best way?

If some forum members are using slapt-get, would you tell me what version?

Do you recommend using it?

I'm using version 0.9.12a and I can't get "slapt-get --add-keys" to work.

This is the error I'm seeing:

slapt-get: src/gpgme.c:204: slapt_add_pkg_source_gpg_key: Assertion `e == GPG_ERR_NO_ERROR' failed.

Aborted

I pulled 0.9.12a from cvs because 0.9.12 was giving me a "segfault".

Apart from the verification error, it seems to be working correctly.

Any help would be appreciated.

BTW, I'm using Absolute Linux 12.0 (Which is awesome!)

[martymas]

did you configure slackware your self

i had slackware 12

given to me

but not knowing the dos commands

has made it hard to install ive had plenty of goes at it but i cant find how to

partition the hard drive

this silly notion of partitioning the harddrive

is only another way of taking over the boot section of the

mbr

so the disks are no use to me

no wonder slack ware is avoided

by the ordinary user

it is for the elite

i cut my teeth on dos

but linux dos is

anther dimention again

marty

[hitest]

I'm running Slackware 12.0 (stable). I usually Just upgrade my unit when security fixes become available for Fire Fox or Thunderbird, etc. When I get a notification e-mail from Slackware security updates I'll download the new package and install it with this command:

#upgradepkg packagename.tgz

This command uninstalls the old package on your system and installs the new package.

P.S. Hopefully some other users will log-on here and they can answer your question about slapt-get.

[Ham Blowfist]

Thanks hitest, I went ahead and subscribed to the Slackware security update mailing list.

Anyway, my issue has been resolved.

To get this functionality from slapt-get, you need to have gnupg installed.

Absolute 12 has gnupg2 by default, but not gnupg.

I installed gnupg 1.4.7-i486-1 and all is working correctly.

If you're wondering whether gnupg(1) will conflict with gnupg2,

apparently it will not. From the gnupg2 announce:

"However, both versions may be installed alongside without any conflict."

source:

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-ann...6q4/000239.html

Thanks to Jason over at jaos dot org for the solution.

[hitest]

Thanks hitest, I went ahead and subscribed to the Slackware security update mailing list.

Anyway, my issue has been resolved.

To get this functionality from slapt-get, you need to have gnupg installed.

Absolute 12 has gnupg2 by default, but not gnupg.

I installed gnupg 1.4.7-i486-1 and all is working correctly.

If you're wondering whether gnupg(1) will conflict with gnupg2,

apparently it will not. From the gnupg2 announce:

"However, both versions may be installed alongside without any conflict."

source:

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-ann...6q4/000239.html

Thanks to Jason over at jaos dot org for the solution.

Cool. Glad you got it figured out. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Just got a security e-mail from slackware. The FF 2.0.0.6 slack package is available:-) Just upgraded to 2.0.0.6.

[Carnevil]

I still believe Slackware needs a good package management system.

One of these days I'm going to try pkgsrc to see how that runs on Slack.